In solidarity! #TransgenderPersonsAmendmentBill2026 #QueerDirections

There's a story for everyone in Love, Sex and India! Get your copy today.

We are thrilled to see both Vidya Rajan and Narayani Basu make it to the shortlist of Auther Awards in the best Non fiction category. Congratulations to both!

This is a charcoal pencil drawing of a dragon dancing through a Calcutta monsoon sky that I did while writing THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR. It can be found inside the Indian edition of the book from @westlandbooks.bsky.social:

Read an extract from @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social’s Gooday Nagar: amp.scroll.in/article/1090...

We released @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social's Gooday Nagar with Aravind Jayan at Beku. Here are some glimpses from the launch!

If you are a #cinephile in #Bengaluru we have the perfect event for you! Join us for a discussion on Ritwik Ghatak with Shamya Dasgupta, Jayant Kaikini and Sreyashi Dastidar at Champaca Books on 15 March. Register on bit.ly/4rb0IKp

Deadline approaching! We are accepting entires for the second volume of Between Worlds, the IF anthology of new Indian SFF, edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social. A detailed note and guidelines here: sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

It's still warm to the touch -- like the jalebies and gulab jamoons Jayesh's mother ate as a cure for her diabetes :)

We are elated to see @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social’s Gooday Nagar in Elle India’s Must-Read Books of 2026! Here’s the entire reading list: elle.in/life-culture...

Our #Thursday recommendation is Mirza Waheed's evocative new novel Maryam & Son. Get your copy from your favourite bookstore or online.

Hot off the press! Discover the world of Gooday Nagar, a city that could be any and every city in India. @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social’s spellbinding stories unearth the daily lives of its unusual inhabitants. Out Now!

It’s pub day! Faith and Fury is an eye-opening account of the COVID years by one of India’s most fearless reporters Jyoti Yadav. Now available at all major bookstores and online.

This #LGBTHistoryMonth we are reading TransForming Rights (ed. by Jayna Kothari) where we learn the ways in which laws in India have shaped transgender lives and community. Now in bookstores and online.

#mandatory reading! A Historian in Gaza is now in bookstores and online. Get your copy today.

We loved the two-page spread of Stories We Wear in the latest issue of The Hollywood Reporter Get your copy of Shefalee Vasudev's thrilling book at your favourite bookstore and online.

Readers in #Bangalore! We have a bookstore date with @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social. Come and get your copies of Gooday Nagar signed. Happening today!

Advance praise for @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social’s Gooday Nagar! Coming soon to stores near you. Pre-order your copy today: amzn.in/d/06Moy4m3

“So does this mean that you …” she said slowly “… does this mean you never have to deal with men?” “Not never …” “You are lucky. Men are useless.” Read this hilarious and heartwarming extract from Love, Sex and India. scroll.in/article/1090...

A Historian in Gaza is a must read for everyone! Now in bookstores and online.

Tuesday reading!🤓 TransForming Rights, edited by senior advocate Jayna Kothari is a comprehensive examination of how Indian law shapes transgender lives, identity and community, and the contradiction between legal recognition and lived experiences. Now in bookstores!

The month of love just got lovelier! 🌹🌹 The Love Tour with Paromita Vohra is coming to your city soon! Keep your eyes on this page.

A little glimpse of my new book. It will have a Goa release on the 13th and a Bangalore release on the 15th this month.

Gooday Nagar is a city where thieving monkeys cause riots, revolutionaries fear gobhi manchurian and one morning you might wake up to discover that everything is made of cake. @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social’s surreal stories unearth the ironies of modern life with wicked humour and strange delight.

'Stories We Wear is more than clothes. It is a projection of the self. It encompasses fashion, hope, aspiration, death, helplessness, social distinction, responsibility and more. Everything tells a story. Our story.' Stories We Wear is in bookstores! www.deccanherald.com/features/boo...

A glimpse into Saranya Subramanian’s poetic world through a selection of poems from her debut collection, ‘Absent People, Absent Places.’ scroll.in/article/1090...

Call for Submissions! We are accepting submissions for the second volume of Between Worlds, the IF anthology of new Indian SFF, edited by @gautambhatia88.bsky.social. We look forward to reading your stories! A detailed note and guidelines here: sites.google.com/pratilipi.co...

Best way to spend the month of love? Go on a bookstore date with Paromita Vohra and Love, Sex and India! Come say hi to us tomorrow at Midland The Book Shop and Bahrisons Booksellers and on Friday at Kunzum Books Agents of Ishq 🌹#RepublicofLove #agentofishq #delhi

Reading Kalpana Karunakaran's biography of her grandmother is a perfect treat for all feminists out there! A Woman of No Consequence is in bookstores and online.

The latest book from Queer Directions (QD) is here! TransForming Rights is now in bookstores and online. Get your copy soon.

As #CeasefireViolation happens yet again, here is an account of historian Jean-Pierre Filiu's time in Gaza. A Historian in Gaza is now in bookstores and online.

We are starting our week with Pankaj Sekhsaria edited Island on Edge. Get your copies from your favourite bookstores and online.

Weekend recommendation!🍉 A Historian in Gaza combines meticulous historical documentation with a lyrical, empathetic portrayal of the Gazan people’s daily struggle for survival and dignity amidst devastation. Now in bookstores and online.

#Wednesday reading! A Historian in Gaza is now in bookstores and online.

Rainy day essentials! Have you got your Agents of Ishq anthology yet? Love, Sex and India (ed. by Paromita Vohra) is now in bookstores and online.

"Rather than treating the Great Nicobar debate as purely social or environmental or economic or even strategic, the essays consider the project as an intersection of environment, society, law and ethics." Island on Edge is now in bookstores and online. www.deccanchronicle.com/lifestyle/bo...

' It exists not merely as a poetry book, but as a living reference on the aesthetics of poetry.' We loved this review of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's new poetry collection. Of Least Concern is now in bookstores and online. scroll.in/article/1089...

Mirza Waheed's new novel is now in bookstores across India, and online. Get your copy soon!

🌹 Happy pub day to Love, Sex and India: The Agents of Ishq anthology, celebrating the different ways in which India loves, desires, and understands intimacy. Real desi stories reframing sex not as taboo, but as a democratic expression of selfhood. Now in bookstores and online. #republicoflove

It’s #RepublicDay, and we are delighted to announce the publication of T.M. Krishna’s We, the People of India, an eloquent meditation on constitutionalism, freedom and the importance of effective representation in a vibrant democracy. Now available at all major bookstores and online.

Only 2 days to go! 🎉 Maryam & Son by Mirza Waheed is coming to your favourite bookstores and online this Monday.

It's pub day for A Historian in Gaza, an intimate and harrowing eyewitness account of Gaza, blending rigorous reportage with a profound narrative of human resilience. Now in bookstores and online.

It’s pub day! Saranya Subramanian’s brilliant debut vividly imagines the slow climb out of depression to discover presence and identity in daily life. ‘Absent People, Absent Places’ is now available at all major bookstores and online.

It's pub day for the first Queer Directions (QD) book of the year! TransForming Rights is a comprehensive examination of how Indian law shapes transgender lives, and the contradiction between legal recognition and lived experiences. Now in bookstores and online.

“As a journalist who writes a lot on clothes, I constantly had this restlessness that this too was about interiority,” Vasudev explains. “Appearance is persistent and persuasive all the time.” Read Shefalee Vasudev's interview with VOGUE India www.vogue.in/content/is-c...

'At times, the book reads like an ecological thriller. History, policy, and lived experiences are layered in a way that steadily builds unease,...as the risks are real, immediate, and irreversible.' Island on Edge is in bookstores and online. www.deccanherald.com/features/boo...

On #Wednesday as we have our third big cup of coffee😅, we are reading this funny and deeply researched essay on Coffee in Shefalee Vasudev's Stories We Wear. Now in bookstores and online.

Read this extract in the Mint from Shefalee Vasudev's Stories We Wear. Get your copy from bookstores and online. www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/...

‘Citizen Under Siege is a book that will age well, bearing witness as it does to a time when citizens rights and the Constitution suffered grave damage.’ Read Frontline’s review of G.N. Devy’s Citizen Under Siege here: frontline.thehindu.com/books/booksr...

OPEN magazine, India lists Mirza Waheed's Maryam & Son as one of the most anticipated books of the year! Pre-order your copy on amzn.in/d/1Li86JW. openthemagazine.com/books/2026-f...